Perfectionism Vs. Getting Things Done

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

“Better done than perfect.”

Neither of these quotes apply to surgery, or dismantling bombs. Fortunately, this blog does not involve surgery, or dismantling bombs.

Getting details right is important. In bankruptcy cases, the word “and” can have $450 million consequences. A single misplaced space can derail an entire python script. One must be cautious before putting money and reputation at risk. Nonetheless, that is not an excuse for not taking action, and starting the first draft.

According to Byron Wien: “If you want to be successful and live a long, stimulating life, keep yourself at risk intellectually all the time.” This blog should keep me intellectually at risk.

“We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching, and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application—not far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech—and learn them so well that words become works.”

As Ryan Holiday said in The Daily Stoic: “Education- reading and meditation on the wisdom of great minds is not to be done for its own sake. It has a purpose.”

I have over a dozen partially written drafts of posts, which I intend to release over the next couple weeks.